First up is a public discussion on copyright and intellectual ownership sparked off by our panel: Nina Moeller, Simon Yuill & Sacha Kahir who will bring their experiences of intellectual copyright, open source film-making and the plant patenting-resistance movement in Ecuador.

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SITA SINGS THE BLUES (cert PG) film starts 9pm

SSTB is an animated film which retells the story, from the Indian epic 'The Ramayana', of Sita a Goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. It is also a contemporary story of the director who moves to India to be with her love only for him to dump her by email... This is an open source film which means that it is completely free to screen, distribute & sell.

Document 8

30th October 2010, 1:15pm-2:45pmCCA

The Immediate Broth Present...

(Neil Gray, Sacha Kahir and Nick e Melville)

Three films interrogating the juncture between the subject, and an urban environment ever more subordinate to the marketplace.

Palimpsest

An interrogative essay on the 'constructed public' face of urban erasure.

The Process

A ghost story where dead industry and the new industries of 'rehabilitation' and 'the black economy' loom large.

Vaguing in Oppidanus

A low rent version of the works of Patrick Keiller or Chris Petit: a 'drift' around the atomised spaces of Edinburgh.